The document provides an overview of a C programming course, including: 1) The course will teach programming C elegantly and writing good algorithms, without fancy graphics. 2) Programming is useful for applying math concepts to the real world through simulation. 3) C was chosen as it is small, common, stable, and quick-running, forming the basis for many languages. 4) The document defines some programming terminology and covers basic C programming concepts like variables, functions, and debugging techniques.

4. More about Hello World Preprocessor Library command main() means “start here” Comments are good Return 0 from main means our program finished without errors Brackets define code blocks

5. C doesn’t care much about spaces Both of these programs are exactly the same as the original as far as your compiler is concerned. Note that words have to be kept together and so do things in quotes. In the next lecture we'll learn how we SHOULD lay out our C program to make them look nice

16. An example function Prototype the function Call the function The function itself function header

23. The print stars example This program prints five rows of five stars This prints 'n' stars and then a new line character Loop around 5 times to print the stars ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Variables here are LOCAL variables

24. Why global is bad This program only prints ONE row of five stars Variable here is global variable

26. Factorial program (and thoughts) int main() { int number= 4; int answer; int count; answer= 1; count= number; while (count >= 0) { answer= answer* count; count--; } printf ("%d! = %d", number,answer); return 0; } number= 4 answer= 1 count= 4 enter while loop answer= 1*4=4 count=3 enter while loop answer=4*3= 12 count=2 enter while loop answer=12*2= 24 count= 1 enter while loop answer= 24*1= 24 count= 0 enter while loop answer= 24*0= 0 AHA – I see!!!